PRACTICE FINAL EXAMINATION ONE
INSTRUCTIONS: Fill in the blank.
1. Who was the author of the Declaration of Independence?
2. What year was the Declaration of Independence written?
3. What year did the U.S. Constitution come into effect?
4. Who was the first President inaugurated under the U.S.
Constitution
5. Who was the author of the Bill of Rights?
6. What year did the drafting of the Articles of Confederation
begin?
7. Who was the first President of the U.S. Confederation?
8. What did Shay's rebellion of clashing debtors and creditors
lead to?
9. Name those who opposed the adoption of the U.S. Constitution?
10. Name the group who supported the adoption of the new
Constitution before its ratification?
11. What name did the authors of the Federalist use?
12. What year was the Bill of Rights written?
13. Who was the author of the U.S. Constitution?
14. What court case declared judicial review for the Federal
Government in 1803?
15. What court case declared implied power for the Federal
Government?
16. What court case declared the Missouri Compromise
unconstitutional?
17. What year did the Civil War begin?
18. What famous speech did President Lincoln deliver in 1863?
19. Who signed the Emancipation of Proclamation?
20. What year did the Civil War end?
21. How many slaves did the Emancipation Proclamation free on the day it was issued?
22. What year was President Lincoln assassinated?
23. What did the 13th Amendment do in 1865?
24. Name the system of government in which at least two levels
of government have political power independent of each other.
25. What power is shared by the Federal government and the
states?
26. What form of government was used by the British in North
America before 1776?
27. What type of grant attempts to eliminate the fragmentation of
categorical aid and provides local areas with some direction as
to how to use the money?
28. What type of revenue awarded monies to state and local
governments on an annual basis with virtually no stipulations
as to how the money was to be spent?
29. What year did the great stock market crash?
30. What did the crash of the stock market lead to?
31. Who introduced the New Deal?
32. Who was the leader of Italy during WWI?
33. Who was the Dictator of Germany during the Nazi regime?
34. Who was the U.S. President during WWII?
35. Which President gave the order to drop the hydrogen bomb?
36. What year did WWII end?
37. What year did Mussolini, Hitler, and FDR die?
38. What year were the United Nations created?
39. What city did the United Nations charter signed in 1945?
40. Where is the headquarters of the United Nations today?
41. What court ruling overturned Jim Crow laws, declaring
segregation unconstitutional?
42. What court case began the Civil Rights Movement in 1954?
43. Who was the African leader of the Civil Rights Movement who found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
44. What country did the U.S. support a coup against Jacob
Arbenz Guzman in 1954?
45. What year did the Berlin Wall fall?
46. The Berlin Wall signified the collapse of what type of
government in the Soviet Union?
47. What is the name used by historians for the delegates of the
Constitutional Convention?
48. What year were the Articles of Confederation submitted to
the states for ratification?
49. What three documents did Madison write, in the order he wrote them?
50. What year were the first ten amendments to the Constitution proposed in Congress?
51. What three titles did Washington have in public life in the order he had them?
52. Was the Bill of Rights ratified before the Constitution was ratified, in the same year the Constitution was ratified, or later?
53. Type of legislature with two chambers, an upper house and
a lower house?
54. What term is given to the power of states to regulate intrastate commerce, establish local governments, to ratify
amendments and conduct elections?
55. What levels of government, under the Constitution of Prohibited
Powers may not tax exports, nor grant titles of nobility?
56. What level of government under Federalism, prohibits from
entering into treaties, coining money, taxing imports, and
keeping troops or ships of war during peace time?
57. What Constitutional Powers are given to the national
government to tax, borrow coin money, declare war, establish
inferior courts and to raise and support an army?
58. What court case did Justice John Marshall write the decision
for, that forbade a state to tax a National bank in 1819?
59. What types of grants are awarded to the States by the Federal
Government for specific purposes?
61. What Branch of Government may appoint federal judges?
62. What Branch of Government decides on constitutionality of laws
and interprets laws and treaties?
63. What Branch of Government confirms executive appointments,
impeaches judges and establishes or abolishes inferior courts?
64. What part of the Legislative Branch confirms executive
appointments and approves treaties?
65. What part of the Legislative Branch may impeach officials and
controls appropriations?
66. How long is a member of the House of Representatives Elected
for?
67. How long is a member of the US Senate elected for?
68. How long does a member of the US Supreme Court serve for?
69. How long is the President of the US elected for?
70. Power the President has to decline laws already passed by
Congress?